Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 13:35:27 -0400 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@tiac.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD/OS binaries on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199805301734.NAA15389@chmls05.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <19980530123708.Z20360@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net> <199805291750.NAA26235@drama.navinet.net>
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FYI, we are referring to the ports by BSDI of the Netscape servers, like Directory Server (et al), which is available on BSDI's "Business Builder CD". Whether or not those will run under FreeBSD. I understand FreeBSD-3.0 will be out sometime this year... is it possible that 3.0 will be the move to ELF format? Forrest At 12:37 PM 5/30/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >On Fri, 29 May 1998 at 13:50:41 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: >> I queried BSDI, Inc., today about whether their ports of Netscape's servers >> would work well on FreeBSD (available on their "Business Builder CDROM"). >> I was told that the binary format for BSD/OS is different from FreeBSD, and >> as such they won't work. >> >> I'm wondering if this is true, or if there's a work around, etc. > >It's not true in the case of Netscape. BSD/OS has changed from a.out >to ELF. We still run a.out, and will probably move to ELF by the end >of the year. Current BSD/OS a.out binaries usually work fine on >FreeBSD. > >If you want to run Netscape on FreeBSD, however, I'd suggest you use >the FreeBSD version. It's available in the Ports Collection or on the >2.2.6 CD-ROM. > >Greg >-- >See complete headers for address and phone numbers >finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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